Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio refuses to comply with a court order that he restore his jails’ former visitation hours for members of the legal community by today.

August 6, 2004

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is allowing a sergeant to collect his $60,000 a year salary despite pleading guilty to a federal felony.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is allowing a sergeant to collect his $60,000 a year salary despite pleading guilty to a federal felony.

A U.S. District Court judge ruled Tuesday that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio cannot feed jailhouse images to the Internet.

Jack MacIntyre was on the phone.

The state public records law has proven to be a bit of a problem in the past eight days for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. In two separate court cases, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's agency was reprimanded by Arizona judges who said it blocked or delayed the release of public records to media outlets.

May 5, 2005

The family of a Phoenix woman who died after a highspeed police pursuit has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and a Tucson woman seriously injured in another pursuit has filed a notice of claim, threatening to sue.

A federal judge hearing a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is twin sister to the president of a major pro-immigrant rights organization.

Maricopa County will pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a blind, disabled man who died after a jail altercation with a sheriff’s detention officer.

PHOENIX — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's appeal of a ruling that criticized a decision by his jail officers to force pink underwear onto a mentally ill inmate who erroneously believed jailers were trying to rape him.

A judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in a lawsuit brought by a Valley newspaper claiming the agency broke open records laws.

County jail officials defied a court order to transport an inmate who wanted an off-site abortion, according to a motion filed by the American Civil Liberties Union this week in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Legal papers filed Wednesday accuse three Maricopa County sheriff’s jailers of beating to death a blind man jailed in Tent City.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has to send written notification to the county’s public defense attorneys about which jail doors are open to them for after-hours visits and post signs directing them how to get there, a judge ruled Monday.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office raised privacy concerns Thursday about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s plan to have his air posse search for filthy pools in the battle against West Nile virus.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office raised privacy concerns Thursday about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s plan to have his air posse search for filthy pools in the battle against West Nile virus.

W. Steven Martin, who is running for Maricopa County sheriff, claimed Tuesday that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has assaulted him, threatened him, unleashed a call girl on him and launched "goons" to tap his phones and follow his movements.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's tough-guy policies spawned pink underwear, chain gangs and two meals a day for jail inmates, as well as an international media following. He's parlayed the jail's reputation as a hell-hole into four terms in office.

Although circumstances vary, the numerous cases of injury or death involving the sheriff's office for which Maricopa County has paid more than $13.7 million in claims over the past decade have one thing in common: Sheriff Joe Arpaio accepts absolutely no responsibility.

Taxpayers have cut a check for nearly $38,000 to a local newspaper because the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office refused to release public records to the paper.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge overstepped her authority in setting jail visitation hours for all inmates, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

Inmates awaiting trial in Maricopa County jails are housed in conditions that jeopardize their health and safety in violation of their constitutional rights, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.